Kategoria BISAC: Medical >> Occupational & Industrial Medicine

In today's difficult economic environment, worksite health promotion programs are becoming increasingly important as employers look for ways to contain health care costs and improve productivity. The newly updated Worksite Health Promotion, Third Edition, presents students and professionals with all of the information they need to create programs that address these issues, improving both the physical health of the employees and the financial health of the organization.

Based on Dr. Chenoweth's expertise as a professor and a professional consultant, the text...

This is the first of five illustrated books exploring a range of traditional arts and crafts practised worldwide. Packed with fascinating details about everything from bangles to baskets, coffee to carpets, lace-making to lavender growing, the book showcases the author's first-hand knowledge and infectious enthusiasm for the wonderful variety of products and techniques developed by centuries of human ingenuity. Whatever your favourite handicraft, you'll find it here or in the companion volumes; and once you open the book you won't be able to resist venturing into less familiar territory -...

This text provides a theoretical and empirical approach to investigating the nature of emerging OSH (Occupational Health and Safety) epidemics across the industrialized world. The author of each chapter in this book deals with exposure to a particular OSH hazard and examines the epidemic nature of the resulting ill-health or injury outcome. The authors also evaluate the contribution of globalization and neoliberal policies in creating workplace environments which foster such new OSH epidemics.

In ubersichtlicher Gliederung und straffer Form erschliesst das vorliegende Werk das gesamte Recht der sozialen Sicherheit, soweit es fur den Arzt von Bedeutung ist.

Es erlautert den sozialrechtlichen Inhalt von Grundbegriffen wie Krankheit, Behinderung, Arbeits-, Berufs- und Erwerbsunfahigkeit, Hilflosigkeit und Pflegebedurftigkeit, Unfall MdE und GdB, fuhrt in die sozialrechtliche Kausalitatslehre ein, stellt in gestrafftem Umfang die Sozialgesetzbucher und die ubrigen Sozialgesetze mit den rechtlichen Voraussetzungen aller wichtigen Sozialleistungen dar und erlautert mit vielen...